He also created linuxhotplug, the udev project, and the linux driver project. This bug was initially discovered by syzbot syzkaller bot in the month of. Greg kroahhartman lts kernel release for 2019 august 14, 2019. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million developers. Torvalds took to the kernel mailing list to announced release candidate six of linux 4.
Greg is a fellow at the linux foundation and is responsible for the linux kernel stable releases. Most devices supported by activesync are supported out of the box. Much of that was preempted by kroah hartman s lengthy list of resources where the uninitiated can find his previous writing and presentations on those topics. As i had this asked to me 3 times today once in irc, and twice in email, no, the 5. Linus torvalds returns to linux after time off for being a. However, the tools remain broken in many ways due to the old implementation. Microsoft stuns linux world, submits source code for. If that operating system works for you, great, use it. Mar 06, 20 what the tech industry has learned from linus torvalds. This has been a 3 month journey to get to this point. Why cant i use a large text file with this code from github.
Greg kroah hartman, a leading linux developer and maintainer of the linux stable branch, however, started the heat. I am using git to try and clone greg kroahhartmans staging tree repository by using following command. Greg kroahhartman reveals his new favorite linux distro. I create new branch with web interface on the github newdesign. Dec 05, 2014 a reddit ama last week with greg kroahhartman, linux kernel developer and linux foundation fellow, went beyond the usual questions about his workstation setup and job description. Nov 16, 2016 greg kroah hartman is a fellow at the linux foundation. Oct 28, 2019 greg kroah hartman, the stable linux kernel maintainer, could have prefaced his open source summit europe keynote speech, mds, fallout, zombieland, and linux, by paraphrasing winston churchill. Linux kernel developer and maintainer greg kroah hartman takes on a short tour of his workspace. Oct 29, 2019 kroah hartman, a kernel maintainer, described some postspectre mds examples, like ridl, fallout and zombieland. Greg kroah hartman is a fellow at the linux foundation. He discusses security in the postspectre world, remembers when microsoft joined the linux distros mailing list, and acknowledges goodnaturedly that he and richard stallman. Stack overflow for teams is a private, secure spot for you and your coworkers to find and share information. Linux developers threaten to pull kill switch linux powers the internet, the android in your pocket, and perhaps even some of your household appliances.
German taxpayers faced with 800k windows 7 support bill due to deutschland dithering. Linux kernel development, greg kroahhartman git merge 2016 duration. Rather there is a psychological basis for writing programs in a conventional manner. Additionally, the i2o sig was seen as hostile to open source and insensitive to small players because it charged high fees for participation and was dominated by.
Top linux kernel developer greg kroah hartman gave a new 30minute interview with tfir during the open source summit, 2019. In the sometimescontentious linux kernel developer community, the gentle giant of a man greg kroahhartman is the friendliest face. This driver can be used to connect to compaq ipaq, hp jornada, casio em500 and other pdas running windows ce 3. While the cycle hasnt seen the most commits ever, it. However, it is perfectly safe to always do so, and in fact vmx also ends up running with efer. Lets talk to linux kernel developer greg kroahhartman open. Linus torvalds talks about coming back to work on linux. Linux kernel development, greg kroahhartman git merge. I know we can restrict normal users but is there a way to restrict the main root user from doing so without disabling the root user. Ive crawled dotfiles on github and want to share some statistic. One of my favourite presentations was the one given by greg kroah hartman, a linux kernel maintainer and an amazing speaker. Here is the keynote by greg kroahhartman at coreos fest, berlin. The linux kernel hidden inside windows 10 techtalk by alex.
Github is the best place to share code with friends, coworkers, classmates, and complete strangers. Lets talk to linux kernel developer greg kroahhartman. Linux kernel development, greg kroahhartman git merge 2016. I love the bsds, they have some great code and developers. Linux kernel in a nutshell by greg kroah hartman there are two different raid management tools. The linux kernel hidden inside windows 10 techtalk by alex ionescu at blackhat usa 2016 slides for the presentation s. Usb tools and drivers usbview for linux io networks edgeport usb linux driver. Oracle patched the bug last month but attacks began after proofofconcept code was published on github. Linus torvalds isnt worried about microsoft taking over linux. Greg kroahhartman 429 russell king 398 david miller 390 eric dumazet 337 kernel releases 3. I gave a talk last year about spectre and how linux reacted to it, he told the reg.
Greg kroah hartman issues enforcement statement after chap wins a few million euros with questionable claims by simon sharwood 18 oct 2017 at 01. Greg kroahhartman on contributing to the kernel, life as a. Kroah hartman, who was speaking at the open source summit in lyons, has opened up on the subject before. Nxe1 on old processors that lack the load efer controls, because it may help avoiding a slow msr write. Shuah khan becomes the third linux foundation fellow.
The linux kernel is the largest collaborative software development project ever. This is the web site for the third edition of linux device drivers, by jonathan corbet, alessandro rubini, and greg kroah hartman. Greg kroahhartman delivering his keynote at coreos fest, berlin there are over 10,800 lines of code added, 5,300 lines of code removed and over 1,875 lines of code modified. Razer uses a very strange way of controlling the keyboard backlight on their keyboards, such that even windows does not recognize it like it does for thinkpad keyboards, no keyboard backlight control without synapse under windows. He talked about meltdown and specter, two of the most critical security vulnerabilities and their impact to linux kernel. Greg kroah hartman gkh is a major linux kernel developer. Vmx already does so if the host has smep, in order to support the combination of cr0. Top linux developer on intel chip security problems. Write and submit your first linux kernel patch youtube.
Linux is the largest software development project on the. He discusses security in the postspectre world, remembers when microsoft joined the linux distros mailing list, and acknowledges goodnaturedly that he and richard stallman approach things from a different standpoint. Oct 15, 2016 the linux kernel hidden inside windows 10 techtalk by alex ionescu at blackhat usa 2016 slides for the presentation s. We did talk about the fact that now greg kroah hartman has write rights to my kernel tree, and if will be easier to just share the. Is there a way to restrict the root user from using certain programs eg. Microsoft cracks list of top linux contributors wired. Sep 01, 2019 openbsd was right linux kernel developer greg kroahhartman.
Linus torvalds and greg kroahhartman both have new linux in. He is also the maintainer of a variety of different kernel subsystems usb, charmisc, staging, etc. Shuah khan becomes the third linux foundation fellow zdnet. Linux stable tree mirror at github greg kroahhartman. When you plug a device into a linux system and it works out of the box, the credit goes to kroah hartman. Kroah hartman says that it is safe to routinely update linux kernels, and cites how facebook tested three years of kernel releases, and nothing broke. The rule became one kernel will be picked each year, and will be maintained for two years. Personally, ill stick to linux, i like our development model better, and i think we do a number of things much better than other projects, but i understand that not everyone likes what we do or how we do it, so am happy there are alternatives for those types. A reddit ama last week with greg kroah hartman, linux kernel developer and linux foundation fellow, went beyond the usual questions about his workstation setup and job description. Microsoft struggles to get hyperv drivers in linux kernel. His return was announced on monday in an email to the linux community from kernel chief greg kroah hartman, who took over the oss development in september.
Jul 06, 2016 the linux kernel is the largest collaborative software development projects ever. Kroah hartman said the microsoft code will be available as part of the next linux public tree release in the next 24 hours. Linux kernel development greg kroahhartman youtube. For the moment, only the finished pdf files are available. Posted on august 19, 2011 august 19, 2011 by jeanluc aufranc cnxsoft 2 comments on how to write and submit a linux kernel patch greg kroah hartman has a very good tutorial about writing and submitting a patch to the linux kernel. It is not merely a matter of aesthetics that programs should be written in a particular style. By greg kroah hartman as a core member of the linux kernel team, greg will show us how to write a kernel patch. Im greg kroahhartman, linux kernel developer, ama again. Hello all, hope everyone is keeping safe through the crises im a linux beginner to intermediate user, and would like to ask if any of you could recommend a good book to help me understand the linux kernel. Linux stable tree mirror at github linux kernel monkey log. The resulting linux kernel has been marked by constant growth throughout its history.
Millions of people use github to build amazing things together. Linux is the largest software project on the planet. Linus torvalds lovehate relationship with the gpl zdnet. Greg kroah hartman linux stable tree mirror at github june 15, 2019. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 50. As everyone seems to like to put kernel trees up on github for random projects based on the crazy notifications i get all the time, i figured it was time to put up a semiofficial mirror of all of the stable kernel releases on github. Greg kroah hartman is a linux kernel maintainer for the usb, driver core, sysfs, and debugfs portions of the kernel as well as being one half of the stable kernel release team. According to the new report from the linux foundation penned by kernel contributor greg kroah hartman, linux foundation vice president of marketing and. Greg kroah hartman s ols keynote posted jul 25, 2006 14. Since the initial release of its source code in 1991, it has grown from a small number of c files under a license prohibiting commercial distribution to the 4. They lunux greatly on optimizing and bugfixing the i 2 o subsystem to run smoothly on 2. Jun 11, 2008 greg kroah hartman is a linux kernel maintainer for the usb, driver core, sysfs, and debugfs portions of the kernel as well as being one half of the stable kernel release team.
It also works well as i have lots of different terminal windows open in the same directory when doing this and i can quickly toggle between them. Linus torvalds and greg kroahhartman both have new linux in mind linux lords linus torvalds and greg kroahhartman have clarified linuxs short term future. Greg kroahhartman, the temporary head of the linux project, has released version 4. As of april 20 he is the linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, the staging subsystem, usb, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, userspace io with hans j. Kroah hartman says further cleanups and changes are needed to get hyperv into the mainline linux kernel, but he doesnt know how close the task is to being achieved. A reddit ama last week with greg kroahhartman, linux kernel developer and linux foundation fellow, went beyond the usual questions about his workstation setup and job description. Because of this, greg kroahhartman decided that the choice of the lts kernel needed to change to a method in which companies can plan on using the lts kernel in their products. Im greg kroah hartman, linux kernel developer, ama again. Greg kroahhartman gkh is a major linux kernel developer.
May, 20 the first in a series that illustrates where linux kernel developers do their art. Much of that was preempted by kroahhartmans lengthy list of resources where the uninitiated can find his previous writing and presentations on those topics. Greg kroahhartman on contributing to the kernel, life as. We also talked about how companies like microsoft and amazon are becoming good citizens and contributing to the kernel. Jul 07, 2016 greg kroah hartman explains the intricacies of linux kernel maintenance. Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by finnish student linus torvalds. This talk will discuss exactly how linux is developed, how fast it is happening, who is doing the work, and how we. Vulnerability discovery android kernel exploitation. This is why linus doesnt accept prs from github reddit. This talk will discuss exactly how linux is developed, how fast it. Greg kroah hartman is second in command in the linux kernel community.
We are going to look at cve20192215 which is a use after free vulnerability in binder ipc subsystem this is a very severe vulnerability because binder subsystem is reachable from chrome sandbox and can lead to privilege escalation if chained with a renderer exploit original discovery. Oct 28, 2019 german taxpayers faced with 800k windows 7 support bill due to deutschland dithering. Ive crawled dotfiles on github and want to share some. The linux kernel hidden inside windows 10 techtalk by. Openbsd was right linux kernel developer greg kroahhartman. Greg kroah hartman, the stable linux kernel maintainer, could have prefaced his open source summit europe keynote speech, mds, fallout, zombieland, and linux, by. He is currently responsible for the stable linux kernel releases, and is a maintainer of the usb, tty, and driver core subsystems in the. Patch workflow with mutt 2019 linux kernel monkey log.
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